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Since radial air-cooled engines began to supplant other types, their power has been steadily stepped up by supercharging, higher compression, stronger parts and fuels with higher octane rating. Pratt & Whitney began to think that not much more could be asked of radial engines in single nine-cylinder banks. Since...
A presumably neutral view from Yale, which has neither farms nor oilwells, was injected by Lester Clyde Lichty and E. J. Ziurys: "The fuel economies accompanying the increased compression ratios made possible by the use of alcohol are offset, both theoretically and from engine test, by its lower heating value...
What motormen do know is that 1935 models gave them a prosperous 1935. Therefore instead of risking untried developments, they polished up this year's cars with refinements and improvements for the 1936 season. There are no major innovations like self-starters, four-wheel brakes, high-compression motors, balloon...
Tempered glass is made from ordinary plate glass, which is first heated close to the melting point in an electric furnace, then abruptly chilled by blasts of air. The surface, cooling and contracting faster than the inside, becomes a stretched, flexible skin and the inside retains some elasticity because of...
FIRST of all, one must record his gratitude to Dr. Simmons for making the first extensive study ever to be published in English of the literary relations between England and Russia. A further vote of thanks is due the author for having compressed no small amount of recondite facts into...